Contemporary Arab-American Literature : : Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging / / Carol Fadda-Conrey.
The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Literatures Initiative ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 9 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: transnational Arab-American belonging
- 1. Reimagining the ancestral Arab homeland
- 2. To the Arab homeland and back: narratives of returns and rearrivals
- 3. Translocal connections between the us and the Arab world
- 4. Representing Arabs and Muslims in the us after 9/11: gender, religion, and citizenship
- Conclusion: transnational solidarity and the Arab uprisings
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- About the author